Improvement in picture-frame



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ALBERT A. MURFEY, OF MONTVILLE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND NATHAN D. MORGAN,CF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 94,632, dated September 7,1869.

The Schedule vreferred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To ai! persons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. MURFEY, of Montville, in the county of New London, and State of Connecticut, have invented a newl and useful Picture- Frame; and.do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- F-igurel is a front elevation,

Figure 2, a rear View, and

Figure 3, an edge view of one of the said frames.

Figure 4 is a transverse section of it.

In carrying out my invention, I take a sheet, A, of pasteboard or' other suitable material, stellated iu form, and I lmake through it a slot, a, and arrange against the ends of such slit, and so as to extend from the sheet two projections, or guides, b b, the same bein g as shown in Figure 5, which is arear side View of. such star of pasteboard, the slit being shown at a, and the guides at b b.

Next, I apply to the saidsheet of pasteboard a pane or sheet of glass, d, and a mat or picture-border, e.

Next, should each of the star-points have its edges of greater width than it may be desirable to cover with thread, in manner as hereinafter described, I cover or cement about the parts of the edges to be left uncovered by the thread, clot-l1 or other material ot' the color of the thread, such being as shown at s, in tigs. 4 and 5.

Next, I wind on the star-points thread, commencing the wind at the edge of one point, and winding around it Iand the next parallel edge of a point a series of six or other suit-able number of coils, laid close together.

Next, I turn the. star ninety degrees, and make ant other series' of winds at right angles with the first;

and so I continue on until the whole points are covered, and a polygonal border is formed about a polygouai space and the glass plate.

The winding of the thread I sometimes perform in one direction and next in another, that is, I make a series of the winds, or coils, by winding on the star in one direction, and next I reverse the winding, or carry it in the opposite direction, thewhole being productive ofthe eii'ect as represented at f in the drawings.

The guides b la are to serve as bridges to keep the" .threads on lthe back of the lpicture-frame from covering the slit n, through which photograph or picture is to be introduced into the space between the pasteboard and the pane of glass. Were it not for the guides, or bridges b b, to bend the threads about, the slit a would be lia-ble to be covered bythe thread.

Threads of different colors may be wound outhe star, and so as to produce a very pleasing effect.

I claim the combination ofthe star with thread wound ou its points, so as to form a polygonal open-,-

A, or with it and thread wound on such star, andv against the said guides, in manner and for the purpose of making a border on the star, asset forth.`

Also, the combination of theedge-cm'erings s with the star and the thread wound thereon, as set forth.

ALBERT A. MURFEY.

Witnesses: J. A. WoonMANN, M. J. TOWER. 

